Side-bar wagon



(No Model.)

P. G-. GLANGY.

SIDE BAR WAGON. No. 269,261. Patented Dec. 19, 188.2

WITNESSES N. PETERS. PhotaLilhcgl-lphur. Wuhlntum D. C.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT Erica PATRICK Gr. CLANCY, OFLEXINGTON, LIISSISSIPPI.

SIDE-BAR WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,261, dated December 19, 1882,

Application filed June 8, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PATRICK Gr. CLANCY, of Lexington, in the county of Holmes and State of Mississippi, have invented anew and Improved Carriage-Body Support; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part -of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an end view, with the position of the axle shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side view, with a portion of the body in section; and Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the body and its attached parts.

My invention relates to an improved oarriage-body supportor framefor supporting the bodies of carriages and buggies and connecting the same to the running-gear; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of curved side bars in relation to the body of the carriage and the springs, whereby great strength and elasticity are obtained for these parts and the backward and forward pitching or wriggling of the body is avoided.

In the drawings, A represents the springs, which are bolted in the middle to the bolsters, (shown in dotted lines,)aud which springs are of a well-known shape, being of the semi-eh liptical form, with a droop or downward bend at their outer ends.

B is the carriage or buggy body, and C C the curved side bars. These curved side bars are made of wood of a semicircular shape, and at the point where they approach each other most closely, or beneath the center of the carriage-body, they are bolted firmly together by two strong bolts, a a, which pass horizontally through the curved side bars, and also through an interposed double concave filling-block, b. The outer ends of the semicircular side bars, 0, are provided with steel plates 0, having perforated ends,through which holts d pass to connect them to the ends of the semi-elliptical springs.

Beneath the carriage-body, at the front and rear, are the cross-bars D D, bolted to the bottom of the wagon-body, and bolted or. clipped, also, to the semicircular side bars, 0 O, at a point nearly midway between their ends and their middle portions. These cross-bars D, it will be seen, prevent the curved side (So model.)

bars, (3 C, from coming in contact with the body of the carriage, and also supporting or holding side bars, 0 G, elevated as they are made to agree in motion with bars O 0. To further connect the side bars to the body of the carriage, a large central bolt, 6, passes through the filling-block b and through the bottom of the carriage-body, and this bolt, when tightened up, strains the side bars between the crossbars D D to an upward curve,

causing them to approach more closely to the bottom of the carriage-body, while their outer ends are canted by this strain and the double concave block I) in a downward direction. This gives a greater elevation to the carriagebody, preventing the bottom of the latter from ever striking the perch, and causes the side bars to act like stiff springs, that co-operate for an upward and downward movement with the springs A. While this result is attained, however, the connection of the side bars to the body is such that it makes the body stiff as against movement in a horizontal plane, and prevents the backward and forward pitching of the said body when traveling, which is so objectionable to the occupant. This upward curve of the side bars, 0 G, as produced by the strain of bolt 6 and double concave block b, also secures another advantage, as it allows the side bars, 0 C, to expand sidewise when the body is pressed down to agree with the movement of the springs, and this secures a very elastic as well as a strong connection for the body.

To reduce noise, rubber bearings may be interposed between the body and its crossbars D, and also between said cross-bars and the semicircular side bars.

I am aware of the fact that it is not new to connect a carriage-body with its springs by curved side bars which rest in a horizontal plane, and I therefore only claim these curved side bars when they are bolted together in the niiddlethrough a filling-block and strained upwardly at this point between cross-bars D by a bolt connecting said curved bars with the wagon-body, so that said curved side bars do not rest on a horizontal plane, but have a decided arch upwardly in the center, which secures a much greater strength and elasticity and adapts them to move in unison with the springs.

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Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The semicircular side bars, 0 G, with interposed filling-block b, fastened together in the center by bolts a, a, combined with the springs the wagon-body having cross-bars D D, and a bolt, 6, connecting thejoined or middle p01- tion of the side bars to the body with an up ward curve, substantially as shown and described.

PATRIGK G. OLANOY. Witnesses:

J. M. DYER, JAS. T. MEADE. 

